let it snow! let it snow! let it snow!

and then rain?

This morning we woke up to snow. Molly and Gabe were really excited. So was I. I decided to pull out the camera and cross my fingers for some Christmas card worthy pictures.

I've always felt really lucky that Molly and Gabe are the opposite of picky when it comes to eating. Gabe LOVES to perch himself near whoever is cooking. He wants to try, smell and "help" make everything. Molly is the same. I can't think of anything that they won't eat... Lucky me.

Molly and Gabe make up for this lack of pickyness in food when it comes to clothes. I was pleasantly surprised when Gabe actually let me put that pull over sweater on him. I've tried to get him to wear it to church. That has ended with Drew eventually coming into the kids room and telling me that it isn't worth all the screaming and to let him pick out a different sweater. arg. Gabe has a dresser full of clothes. 1/2 of them he refuses to wear. By refuse I mean arching of the back and screaming bloody murder. If said clothes do make it onto him he'll take them off and run away naked. "me no like that"

Then there is Molly. Where do I begin?
Me "Molly it's cold outside. I want you to pick out a pair of pants"
Molly "why do you want me to be ugly? I want to wear... {fancy sundress} I want to look beautiful."
Me "it's too cold for that"
Molly then starts crying. Huge tears start. Followed by wailing about how Princesses never wear pants. Sometimes I'll get her to happily agree to wear a skirt with leggings. But did you know that princesses never wear skirts, leggings, coats or fancy shirts? They only wear fancy dresses. I do get her on occasion when I point out that while Cinderella and Snow White may always wear dresses, but their "bad mamma's" make them wear ugly rag dresses. Holy Cow. I used to think Molly was a "normal" girlie girl, but I don't see other little girls walking around wearing crowns and clip on earrings ALL THE TIME... I do think the crown is funny and she does where it everywhere, but I have enough to battle with her about. If she wants to wear a crown to the library and to run errands more power to her.

Maybe I should be looking forward to kindergarten. I've been told that all of the schools here require uniforms. Everyone can look "ugly" together.

Happy Thanksgiving!

My parents, sister, and brother drove down for Thanksgiving. Here is a picture of everyone sitting down for dinner. We had lots of yummy food. It was so nice having my family here. Friday Drew and I were able to sneak out and start/finish Christmas shopping for Molly and Gabe. We also snuck out on Saturday to see the new HP movie. I LOVED it. I think it was the best one so far. Maybe it's because I felt like it was truer to the book. Or maybe it was because I didn't read the book right before the movie. Either way I'm excited for July when the next one comes out.

My parents left this afternoon. Now it's back to laundry and getting back on a schedule. Most of the time my family was here it was wet and gross outside. Drew and Ben played football in the rain Thursday morning. We woke up to a pathetic amount of snow on Friday, but Molly and Gabe were still really excited about it (it was all melted by 11). Saturday and Sunday were chilly, but today has been beautiful. All of the rain over the past week is turning our grass green again. It's a little deceiving because I know that winter is right around the corner.

That's that. Our weekend in a nutshell.

it's a bird. it's a plane...

It's a baby BOY!

He should be arriving sometime mid March. The ultrasound said that he's measuring a little small. Maybe he'll be a week late like Molly... Or maybe he'll surprise me and be a couple weeks early like Gabe... Either way we're all really excited and can't wait.

(Drew thinks he looks like Gabe)

Happy Halloween Weekend!

Friday: the church Trunk or Treat

don't they look thrilled to be there?

(Gabe is a monkey. I'm noticing that I didn't get any pictures of him with his hood up...) Saturday: Boo at the Zoo

Molly's favorite

by this point in the night Gabe was passed out in the stroller.
Molly on the "giant wheel"

The talking pumpkin. She said Molly was a beautiful witch. Anyone who says Molly is beautiful automatically becomes a fan favorite. "Mommy did you hear her? She said I was beautiful." And I keep thinking is this really my 3 year old?

Halloween.

We had dinner with some friends and then went trick or treating around the block. One family had a big screen tv on their front lawn and were playing the Thriller music video. There were 10+ people dancing along. Molly and Jimmy were awe struck.

Drew's pumpkin

friends welcome

Last week our friend Aaron had a conference here in Louisville. He brought along Becky and the rest of the kiddos. We had so much fun. We've really missed them. When we lived in Lincoln we would get together a lot, our kids get along really well and it was nice always having a friend to do things with. Molly and Gabe have been talking about them coming for a LONG time. Now we are working on getting back on schedule and catching up on the sleep we missed out on last week. :D

We went to Mooremen Landing and walked around. It was so pretty. The kids had a great time playing in the leaves. One thing about Kentucky is that there is NO shortage of leaves.

We went to Mammoth Cave on Friday. Sadly Aaron was at his conference so he missed out on this one. Here we are exiting the cave.
me and the girls

Becky with her little guy.

What can I say? Gabe is so happy to be a part of our family.

We also went to the zoo played some frisbee golf and went for a little night hike in the Jefferson Memorial Forrest.

Thanks for coming Anderson's we had a great time!

Paint & Wood

Before.

After.
The hallway/kids door.
One of the things that I like about our library is that after story time they always have a craft. Molly and Gabe's door is ready for fall.
(Last week felt like fall low to mid 70's. Sunday it's supposed to be 90. Not complaining just sayin...)
We have a friend who takes care of a golf course. Last week he cut down 2 trees. These trees have a new home behind our garage.
This was the start. Now the wood goes all the way across the garage and it's stacked up to the window. We still have a bunch of trunk pieces that need to be cut and then stacked... It should keep us warm this winter. and the next. and the next. Anything to keep the heating bill down is fine by me.

Meijer

I'm not sure if any of you live by a Meijer or if Meijer adds are national or just local, but my Meijer is having a can sale this week. Meijer brand vegetables are 4/$1.00 and apples are $.59 lb. Our store was pretty cleaned out, but Wal-Mart add matches...

One other reason we love Meijer is Sandy. Sandy is the little electronic horse you can ride when walking out of the store. Molly and Gabe asked if they could ride her the first time we were in there. I without really looking said No and then realized that you can ride Sandy for {drumroll} $.01 Now whenever we're in Meijer the bribe is "if your good you can ride Sandy before we leave".